TIFU- by falling asleep in the park

So about a year ago it was a really beautiful day and I [F18] decided to walk to the park that was just outside of my neighborhood. There was a playground and right next to/attached to it was a large baseball field and there were a bunch of kids playing on the playground and I wanted some peace so I went to sit in the field. I was laying in the sun and I was uncomfortable so I laid on my stomach with my headphones in and I fell asleep. I don't know how long I was asleep but I awoke to two police officers standing above me, and my first thought was "oh no It must be after hours and I'm trespassing" but I asked them if I wasn't allowed to be there and they looked at me a little incredulously and said no I could be there. At this point I'm confused but I notice their police cruisers and I hear the distant sound of sirens and then it clicks, someone called the cops because they thought I was dead. When I asked them they started laughing and said that a woman called about a person face down in a field assuming it was a drug related incident and I was incredibly embarrassed and they were still laughing about how mortified I was that they had to come all this way just because I fell asleep. They said it would make for a good story at the station, and they went on their way.

TL;DR: Fell asleep in the park, someone called the police because they thought I was dead, they thought it was hilarious.

Atillion 6775

I'm sure they were laughing in part due to the relief of it NOT being a dead person this time. (Source: Stories from having a cop for a mom)

Sam-Gunn 2661

"You're lucky, miss. Almost all the calls about a dead body in this park we've received in the past 5 years have resulted in us finding actual dead bodies. Probably best to ensure you sleep at home from now on."

Reminds me of an askreddit story where a rural cop heard screams coming from a field with a huge fire. He and his partner hopped barbed wire and ran through the night to get to the blaze. When they got there, they found a farmer burning a haystack, and a bunch of his goats running around.

Exactly. No one wants to find a dead girl in a park. 75% funny 25% emotional relief.

Piee314 15

Unless one is a necrophiliac.

PatrickSutherla 38

I can confirm they were very, very relieved. Source: am a law enforcement officer, so is my father.

Skerrydude 12

Probably relieved that there was no paperwork I involved...

cheeseboythrowaway 11

I walk past people passed out on the sidewalk all the time and about half the time they look dead and I always wonder "should I poke them and make sure they're alive?"

MothFaery 3

If you're in the US, you can call in for a wellness check on them by a police officer if you don't feel safe doing it yourself.

7BOomeRanG7 5

Dead people suck... it's a ton of paperwork.

TheBeardedMarxist 3

Yeah, nobody likes extra paperwork.

methnbeer 2

It’s funny that person was not willing to even remotely check

2HornsUp 2

When my dad was around 16 or 17 he did ride alongs with my grandfather (his dad), and because they were family, no call was hidden or skipped. I was told of one time that my dad was riding in the squad car, and they got a call about a body found in a house. Both of them drove up with lights and sirens blaring. Got there and my grandfather was like “Ok you stay by me. I don’t know what might be behind the door.” Next thing my dad knows, he’s stepping over a lifeless body to follow my grandfather through the house. This would NEVER fly today, and I’m completely ok with that.

Atillion 3

HAHHA yeah, even doing ride alongs with my mom in the 90's, she would go into a gas station for coffee, I would crack the front window of the squad car and put my hands behind my back and call out to people walking by... "Hey! PSSST! Open the door!!! Come on man, let me out!!"

LOL no one ever did, and they always went inside and told on me.

jesst 2

My cousin is a cop in a small town. Before GPS and body cams became a thing she was working an over night and at about 3 in the morning she pulled off to the side watching the road and fell asleep. An elderly couple walked by with their dog and thought she was dead so they called the police. Her seargent woke her up laughing the whole time.

draccius 2

Soooo much less paperwork.

Socialjuicetus -1

Then I hope you realise your mom was scum.

Tolathar_E_Strongbow 1667

That feeling sucks. At my high school, there was one, big, hour-long lunch period for everyone at the same time, and because I was sleep-deprived as all get-out during high school, I would sometimes go to the upstairs common area where not many people hung out, and nap for a little while. On two or three occassions, either a teacher or student woke me up because they thought I had passed out and might be in medical danger. I always felt bad for making them worry, but I didn't know how else to get a nap. I must not be a very graceful sleeper

No-vem-ber 1124

Some people look like an adorable sleeping Disney Princess when they're asleep. Other people look straight up, tongue-lolling, neck-crick dead. I am those other people.

If this were fortnite, you'd be dead for making too much noise already.

PropertyOfTiger 1

Dude, I wanna play that so bad, but idk how it works or really... anything... about it... But a bunch of my students play and I’m afraid of running into them if it’s an online thing XD How obvious is it that I’m clueless about fortnite?

kiwikish 2

Haha I'm pretty new at it and still not great. But it's just tons of fun to keep at it I suppose. With over a million people playing across like five platforms, I'd say the chances of you running into your students is non-existant. I can pm you my gamertag, if you have Xbox!

PropertyOfTiger 1

No Xbox. I’m just a poor teachers aide haha
But I might gain access to one pretty soon. If that happens, then definitely! :D I appreciate it!

Axipixel 7

Because I can hear you from here.

lowtoiletsitter 2

:( that's what my gf says

Laisin 1

It's THAT loud. We heard.

TheArmoredKitten 21

My dad doesn’t snore continuously. He buzzes for a minute, pops like an eighteen wheeler backfiring trying to downshift on an interstate exit ramp, and then breathes normally for a few minutes.

lcs-150 6

That sounds like sleep apnea. You should encourage him to get it checked out.

TheArmoredKitten 3

If it were sleep apnea he wouldn’t do the breath normally part. It’s actually to do with with resting angle of his jaw when he sleeps. It’s only when he’s on the couch that he does that.

iamaperson3133 7

At least they know you're still alive

PropertyOfTiger 1

True

Gunji_Murgi 2

Guilty

RedQueenHypothesis 52

I toss and turn in my sleep. I have been told by several partners that I'm pretty violent when I'm sleeping and I'm extremely ticklish.

So upside, I don't look dead. Downside, if you try to cuddle me and I'm asleep, I might punch or kick you (not on purpose, but seriously, I give people full disclosure at this point that I am a violent sleeper).

Leafy81 46

I'm a kicker. I roll around in my sleep and flail my arms and legs. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up because I'd accidentally kicked my cat in the head. You'd think he would learn after the 10th time. I think he secretly likes it, or he's even dumber than I thought.

HereForTheGang_Bang 24

You made him that way with CTE!

Leafy81 13

Now I feel even worse than I did before!

RedQueenHypothesis 13

My ex told me that I kicked my cat right off the bed one night after she play attacked my feet and as she desperately grabbed the blanket as the blanket slid off, I didn't even wake up.

guera08 11

I toss and turn a lot at night, unless one of my cats is sleeping up against me. When my big cat sleeps up against my side I hardly move all night. My SO likes those nights because I don't wake him up, I don't so much because I wake up each time I try to move and then realize there's a cat and my half asleep ass doesn't want to disturb it. It's a good thing they're cute.

GlitterberrySoup 13

This is my ex! When I was pregnant with our son, we were sleeping at his dad's house and I had to pee in the middle of the night (because pregnant). I don't know if I startled him in his sleep or what but to this day he has no memory of this: I rolled over to get out of bed and he turned to face me and flopped his arm right into my eye. It immediately swelled up and by morning was completely black and blue.

Great way to have breakfast with the in-laws, pregnant and sporting a fresh shiner. No one wanted to ask.

cheeseboythrowaway 13

Great way to have breakfast with the in-laws, pregnant and sporting a fresh shiner. No one wanted to ask.

that's arguably worse than getting hit in the face

RedQueenHypothesis 8

I've reached a point in my life where I just want my own bed. I don't want to have someone upset over something I can not control. I feel bad if you tell me about it, but I can't change it. It's not like after a couple decades I'm just gonna start sleeping without flailing. My ex made me feel really bad, like I did it on purpose. I didn't.

I'm sorry about your awkward breakfast with the inlaws though. I wouldn't have wanted to ask either.

UncleTogie 6

That's my wife. I call her 'my lil' night-time hockey player'.

Not so fun on the bad nights.

positive_thinking_ 2

when i was a child i was a deep sleeper, i had fallen and hit my head one day and was at risk of a concussion, my parents nurse friend just said wake me up every few hours through the night. they had to run my head under cold water to wake me up and that barely worked.

one night i was sleeping in the same bed as them (i was a scarred kid) i fell off and BAM hit my head on the nightstand.
i didnt wake up from it either, just kept on sleeping through it.

RedQueenHypothesis 2

I had a similar experience, except my family would have died before taking me to see someone who could potentially report them to child services (they had already been investigated multiple times). I had a bunk bed, a wooden hand me down made in a time before guard rails, and a dresser underneath.

It's very disorienting to wake up on the floor with new bruises.

iamthepixie 2

Thanks to the Navy I can sleep very deeply but I awaken very easily. I jump straight out of bed from a deep REM cycle and function like I've been awake for hours.

Case in point : one time the battery in our smoke alarm decided to choose 2 am to go all wonky and the alarm went off. According to my SO I leapt out of bed, did an entire perimeter check for fire and checked on the cats. Saw there was no fire. Fixed the alarm (aka yanked out the battery) and went right back to sleep when my head hit the pillow.

Other people sleep with their eyes open and look dead and then start talking in their sleep .

Then some others sing in their sleep.

I have weird siblings.

Ambitus 0

All of them?

PleaseMurderYourself 90

When I was in high school I would always fold a piece of paper in half so it would stand up and write "Napping, not dead" on it to prevent being woken up by teachers checking my pulse. I sleep like the dead, apparently.

gritd2 58

My son is that way. You cannot wake the boy, i have seen people come awake easier while still under general anesthesia than him on a normal day.

TRUELIKEtheRIVER 38

BOY

Leafy81 19

I used to scare the hell out of my mom because its hard to wake me up. Its always been that way though.

torutaka 10

I slept through an earthquake, a flooded house, and a neighborhood fire.

I'm pretty sure the next calamity would kill me in my sleep.

ChaiHai 7

So how bad was the flooded house? Did you wake up naked on your mattress 3 blocks away in a neighbors front yard?

torutaka 15

It was about 6 inches from my mattress.

The fire was 3 houses away from ours.

The earthquake was magnitude 6.

I sleep pretty heavily. Everyone else was pretty much panicking.

Someone woke me during the fire and I grumpily yelled "Wake me up when our house is actually burning" and went back to sleep.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed when I'm sleepy.

Free-Cuddles 3

"Wake me when our house is actually burning." I did that same thing on 9-11.

Asleep on the floor of a hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I hear screaming from the bed, ignored it for a while because I thought the guy who was in it might've been screwing or murdering his gf. When the screams didn't stop, I sat up and she was standing on the bed screaming at the TV (one building on fire from plane crash). Smacked the dude in the bed, and asked him wtf she was screaming at the news for. He sat up and tried to calm her and asked her what was wrong to which she kept screaming "we're under attack!".

Looked at the TV and watched the second plane hit live, took a little bit for my sleep-addle brain to realize it wasn't just repeating video of the first 'crash' as there was now two buildings on fire. Realized it was intentional, but localized, and said "Where is that?" and when she said New York, I responded with "Wake me when they start bombing Arkansas." and rolled over, and went back to sleep for another few hours.

ChaiHai 1

I'm surprised no one came to get you during the flood. And yeah, you don't have all brain cells when you're sleepy.

torutaka 1

When I asked, they said they panicked and forgot about me.

In their defense, it was during a family gathering so there were about 20 people, give or take a few.

ChaiHai 2

...That doesn't speak well of them. 20 people and not one of them when they were safely outside, took a breather and then did a check to make sure everyone was out? Especially your immediate family.

torutaka 1

Nobody went outside due to the flood being worse outdoors. They just went and stacked chairs for the kids to stand on while the adults were salvaging whatever they could.

In hindsight, I think they would come for me if the flood got worse though I think a soggy mattress would be reason enough to wake up by myself.

oldfood 2

Plot twist: you’re a cat

chrestochant 9

This is the most mom comment i have ever read

snacksandmetal 1

goals

Milesman34 6

But what if you actually were dead?

PleaseMurderYourself 16

Then it would be a pretty solid prank. Gotcha, people that care about their students' well being!

But seriously, the study hall periods didn't last that long. I went to a Catholic high school so they could just chalk it up to god's will. Inshallah.

m-interjection 1

Don't think it actually matters whether a body lies there for an hour or a day.

Typhon_ragewind 1

Just like granny weatherwax!

OldManPhill 49

I once dosed off in class in highschool. Woke up to the whole class looking at me and the teacher asked if i had a good nap. It was a very good nap

2andrea 22

In junior high, a stoner used to sleep every day in math class which was the last class of the day. One day, the teacher had us all quietly get up and move across the hall to an empty classroom, then turned out the lights and closed the door.

Poor Tom woke up stoned, thinking he slept so long he missed the bus. He was a big, lumbering kind of guy, so saying that he bolted down the hall isn't really accurate but I'm not a writer so deal with it already.

FondSteam39 10

"the speed at which he barreled down the hall was incredulous"?

MoneyForNothing_ 2

At that point he might as well go back to sleep. High school naps were really the best.

positiveinfluences 8

dosed off

I read this as if you'd overdosed

"dozed"

OldManPhill 1

I might have know how to spell that if i slept less

AnimeLord1016 7

The funny thing is if it was a very good nap, you'd be in such a good mood you wouldn't care that they were all starting at you XD

VexingRaven 19

Your high school had a common area? Lucky. Mine just had a cafeteria and you weren't allowed to leave it during lunch.

Mother_of_Smaug 22

I would nap in the band room or theater room. Several years before I got there, they had done a play, and where up really late building sets. So they all went to the green room and piled up and took a nap. The theater teacher came in and commented on how they were just like piles of rats sleeping. So from then on the theater rats became like a high school fraternity, you had to participate in a varriety of positions and events in theater, then earned your rat status. My oldest son was rated before I was, and he participated in only one musical in utero (my senior year of high school). I was then rated, and got the fancy bag and everything. It was awesome. I miss that.

TL;DR: I miss theater. All of us were the best rats ever.

clairebear_22k 2

We had a nice courtyard with landscaping and a tree and benches but it was locked and you couldn't use it

realmcphearson 13

The college I went to had a giant building with a food court, meeting rooms, etc. and the top floor was pretty much the designated sleeping area. At any time of the day you could go up there and see at least 20 people just passed out.

GhostInTheCode 11

people should consider masks. see you with a mask covering your eyes (bonus points for a charging battery symbol) and they will definitely assume you're sleeping.

AnimeLord1016 10

Upvote for the charging battery symbol. Why the fuck aren't these being sold everywhere?

Jackie_McMackie 5

well chances are you aren't a snorer

Vampircorn 3

I fell asleep last week in the middle of class. Maybe 25 or 30 people total, very small room, and a very old professor. I was in the second row and was sleeping pretty straight up with my head in my cheek in my hand and my elbow on the desk. I missed about 20 minutes of class and my professor hadn't noticed, until the girl behind me started lightly kicking my chair because my snoring was so loud that everyone in the class was laughing. Suffice to say, I am not a graceful sleeper, but at least people don't think I'm dead when I catch a few z's.

jbea456 2

It helps to write "I'm taking a nap" on a piece of paper when you're going to nap in a strange place.

tristan-chord 2

You should've studied in East Asia, where we have daily 30-minute silence breaks after lunch, you can study or read or nap :)

Krag_SkullSmasher 1

I used to know a guy who'd go sit on the toilet and fall asleep for a couple hours between classes

flowerytnt 1

Same. I always lunch in a hurry and take the hour in order to sleep. The thing is... Not many hidden places to do it, so I usually sleep in the corner of the infolab or in the end of the corridor.
No one has ever thought I was in danger, but god knows how many pictures my friends have of me sleeping like a baby on the floor - drooling and everything.

Edit: typo

PazzTheMudkip 1

I'd have just put a paper sign on my chest that said "I'm sleeping, and I'm fine."

SpectralSheep 1

Whenever I used to nap at school, I would leave a piece of paper on/near me that said "please let me sleep"

It sounds believable, but it also sounds like maybe he just fell asleep and someone woke him up.

Razgrez11 726

Haha, ahhh don't be embarrassed. Someone was worried about you is all. No harm was done, they were on the clock getting paid so overall everything is all good. The only one who should be a little embarrassed was the lady jumping the gun and calling 911. But at least she was looking out for the community.

Doiglad 350

I hope she wasn't embarrassed because then she might not call 911 on a situation that might call for it

ChipsAndTapatio 158

Yeah, better safe than sorry. My dad once stepped over someone in a stairwell that he and his housemates all thought was someone drunk and passed out. Dude was dead. You never know if someone might be in need of medical attention or worse.

sudo999 146

Sometimes it might not even be drunkenness. Once my mom saw someone passed out by the side of a busy road, and she was worried that the guy might be dead or something given the way he was just sort of crumpled up on a sidewalk. She pulled over and asked him if he was alright, to which he groggily responded, "no." So she called 911. Turns out the guy was in the middle of lapsing into a diabetic coma and would have died if no one had stopped.

EDIT: messaged mom about this, turns out I misremembered a detail: she never found out what exactly was wrong with him and the diabetes thing was speculation on her part, but the guy was still very clearly in distress and needed medical attention. Still, diabetic coma looks a lot like drunkenness, so don't assume.

ChipsAndTapatio 49

My God, that's so wonderful she stopped and talked to him! Your mother really did the right thing.

sudo999 35

She's also on Reddit. I won't tag her, though, because I don't want her knowing it's me.

ChipsAndTapatio 13

Well I hope she knows she's awesome. She saved that man's life.

sudo999 10

I'll make sure to tell her, was planning on making her home-cooked breakfast for mother's day already. Tbh she's an awesome mom.

Andreastars 36

Generally someone passed out drunk is in need of medical attention if they can’t be woken up or are nonresponsive while awake

ChipsAndTapatio 22

... knowledge which is only helpful if the bystanders who notice this person try to wake them up (which unfortunately my father and so many other bystanders do not try to do)

fastmatt30 17

Yeah I would thank the lady who called

WilliamofYellow 10

She could just have shaken OP's shoulder.

thegayboynextdoor 1

If you think someone’s dead, best not to get your DNA on it. Maybe shout at them to wake them up instead.

not-a-tapir 6

I really, really doubt you're going to get done for murder because your DNA is on a corpse's shoulder, when you're also the person who called the police and clearly a concerned bystander.

ScumbagGrum 4

Living in Seattle I can definitely say that situations like this most likely do call for it.

creamersrealm 1

Yeah but she could have tapped you on the shoulder or checked for a pulse.

not-a-tapir 3

I think I'd have definitely checked the person was dead before calling the police.

Eskipony 1

You'll be one of the first to turn in a zombie apocalypse then

not-a-tapir 1

Good, that's the fastest method to winning a zombie apocalypse.

lydocia 2

My first thought was "why wouldn't you check first before calling the cops?" but then again, would you touch a dead body, roll it over and see / feel god knows what up close?

approachcautiously 1

I feel like they might have also done it to avoid their children, or other children from stumbling upon a dead body.

If you think the person had been dead already, you aren't really concerned with their well being anymore

JJonn 3

You could at least walk within 50' of her and giving a "hey, you ok?" shout. I called the cops after finding a drunk teen passed out on a walk path, but only after shouting and him and giving his shoes a kick.

approachcautiously 2

Maybe she really didn't want to see a possibly dead body? And if OP wasn't woken up by the sirens when the police first got there I don't think yelling would wake them up

Mousy 1

Fr, who tf calls the cops because they see somebody lying down in a park?

cheeseboythrowaway 0

Like why would you call the cops about a dead body and not go and actually check that they were dead?

rank_1_glad 0

That's stupid of you to assume she should be embarrassed for taking such action.

FilthyPinko 671

I fell asleep on the school bus while heading home once when I was very young. Woke up in some town I'd never heard of before

newosis 522

I did that. This is pre mobile phones as well. The dick head bus driver just let me off and told me to 'walk'. Seriously, I was about 12 in my fucking PE kit miles from home. Looking back that guy was a total fucking prick. Anything could have happened to me. Luckily I had the good sense to go into a shop and ask to use the phone and do a reverse charge call home.

Xey_Ulrich 467

Man that must suck. My old bus driver was my neighbor and I can remember one day, I must've been around 6, that he just cruised until I woke up. He said, "You have a good nap, bud? Let's get you home." I was the last stop on a long route.

andidandi 156

My parents weren’t home one day and since they had grown up with my substitute bus driver and the guy he was subbing for had been my dads driver, he ended up taking me back to drop the bus off with him then drove me in his private truck to my uncles house. Lol. Small towns in the 90’s were great.

I miss my small town in the 90s. I went to a school that was K-8th grade and it was the only school for 50 miles or so. I actually ended up graduating high school with the same kids I was in kindergarten with.
Story time:

One time when I was about 10 some older 8th grade girls invited me to sit in the back of the bus. In those days the back was for the cooler older kids ONLY. Needless to to say I was stoked. So I sit in the back and for the whole bus ride to school the put make up on me. This is the 90s so this make up consisted of glitter. That's about it. These girls put it in my hair, on my eyelids and on my cheeks. By the time we got off the bus I was covered. I thought I looked awesome.

Cue in the principal. He was an older man well liked and adored by all. He took one look at my face, said wait here in the office for me. He told the office that he'd be right back. Put me in his car and drove me straight back home to my grandmas. He told her " ill wait here for you to give iamthepixie a bath and then I'll take her back to school" so he drank some tea my grandma made him and I got a bath. Went back to school and those older girls got written up.

I really miss those days when people were just good people and no one automatically assumed there was motive.

Rest In Peace Mr. Costa you were a good man.

andidandi 2

That’s adorable lol.

iamthepixie 2

It's one of my fondest memories. Sadly my grandma passed away about 3 years after that incident and my principal died about 5 years ago. That little school is all boarded up now and no one lives in that town it's now a ghost town.

andidandi 2

That is sad! My little town isn’t so little anymore. It’s still considered a small town but it’s not the same. And I haven’t lived there in years. Sorry for your losses.

iamthepixie 2

I have a ton of special memories. We had a ranch with every animal you could think of. I was a bored little girl so you can imagine it was my play ground and contributed to a ton of mischief :) I'm in a better mood than before this post now just thinking of the good old days .)

good_sandlapper 18

That is such a sweet story & such a sweet neighbor.

Avenged405 15

Wholesome

FUBARded 52

I once sat down on the train, and what felt like immediately woke up. I had slept for the 30 minutes to my destination, and another 30 minutes back to my point of origin. I only figured it out when I wondered why the train hadn't left yet, and noticed that my watch was an hour ahead of when the train normally left...

RudeCats 2

Time warp lol. That must have felt very disorienting.

FUBARded 2

Yeah, that day was confusing as all hell.

lukewarm_at 32

My cousin lay down on the seat and fell asleep on the school shuttle bus, bus driver didn't see her and when she woke up she was back at school. My uncle had to go get her.

MaryKer 25

I did that when I was like 14, woke up in a panic and ran straight into a small towns general store like “ where am I where is this!?!” The shop lady starts freaking out but as turns out she thought I’d been drugged and kidnapped because I’d just woken up and was a taaaad frantic. Free ice cream though, 10/10 would get lost again

yoboyrotor 5

Isn't this a plot in one of the Hey Aurthur! episodes?

thedevilsdelinquent 9

*Arthur, and yes, that was the plot of one of the episodes. It was really good then, and it still holds up.

madguins 5

My friend did that on Metro North from NYC. We're a 25 min train ride out, he slept until the last stop in CT. To top it off it was the last train, his phone was dead, and he was like 16.

DickJohnson88 2

The number of times I woke up in Trenton taking the last train out of Penn for the night is too damn high!!!

Johnny_Poppyseed 2

Im luckily the last stop on the shore line out of Penn lol. Sometimes get woken up to transfer in long branch, but then can just sleep without worry.

DickJohnson88 1

Yeah, coming into the city is no problem, it's visiting my parents, or when I was going back when I lived there that it sucked lol.

alexdominic 2

Reminds me of that episode where Arthur falls asleep on a city bus and ends up in a sketchy neighborhood

FequalsMfreakingA 2

There's a school bus parking lot by me, and whenever they're parked, they hang a little sign that says "this bus has been checked for sleeping students". It's on the back door, I'm assuming as a way to force the driver to physically walk the length of the bus and check. I guess falling asleep happens more than you think

jerimiahf 1

Did you ever make it back home?

TRYcycle11 365

This is such a wholesome TIFU. I love it

Celina_cue 41

Came here to say this! 😊

MichaelScott315 8

Can I jump on this love train?

DrJanekyll 2

Yup. Could’ve ended up like the young woman at Yale.

24523452451234 1

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thatonetrollchick 225

Well, this was my risky click of the day. I almost didn't read this post because for some reason I thought it was going to end with "fell asleep/got raped" ... - WHEW!!!! Am I glad it ended with a chuckle! Thanks op!

moosesmo 50

I thought so too!

JustThatFox 23

Same here, I really didn't want that to be the case. Glad it wasn't, and it ended up being wholesome.

SomewithCheese 29

That was the biggest relief.

Hawkguy85 23

And then the mention of the “baseball field” got me thinking we were looking at a crazy/weird baseball injury! OP really led us on a whirlwind of a journey!

Ea-rl 6

Young female falls asleep in a field, it was all building up, glad it didn't end that way though

frakkin 0

I kinda just assumed she got a bad sunburn or something.

kushhcommander 201

Did the same thing in NYC. Blacked out and separated from my friends. Somehow got into an apartment building and fell asleep next to a radiator (it was January) with my fancy going out clothes on. A few hours later, I'm woken up by EMT's and police. Someone called and said there was a dead person in their lobby. I told them I was separated from my friends and couldn't remember where they lived in the building (I was three blocks away lol) and they were just told me good luck and left me there lmao!

40ofbeer 50

Wth, they didn't help you? That sucks

InstallGentoo27 88

If you're old enough to get blackout drunk, you shouldn't need the fucking police for directions.

inspectoralex 54

I just see it as helping the person who just passed out drunk in front of a radiator in a random building could maybe prevent some kind of real emergency later on when said drunk person gets like murdered or kidnapped or stumbles into traffic or something. "Preventative police work," if that's a term?

SaScrewaround 29

Sometimes police do. Its called public intoxication. They remove them from public and detain them. Prevents them from being kidnapped or murdered.

InstallGentoo27 12

If youre sincerely worried about someone, and you believe it's potentially a medical or criminal emergency, you should at least do the bare minimum and gently check on them before calling.

inspectoralex 1

Saw a random guy stumble on the sidewalk and up some stairs at the apartment building adjacent to mine. I went to check on him to see if he got up safely, and he was passed out in front of a door. I wasn't about to touch some random guy, but I would hate myself if he had overdosed or something and I let him lay there to die. I called the police non-emergency number for them to do a wellness check. Guy was fine, thankfully.

Account_1223 1

That's what the police in the UK do. They help out drunk people in case they are too drunk to get home / worried / whatever

Kevin_Malone11 1

what about the regular police? Do they help blackout drunks?

poodles_and_oodles 156

Lol I’ve been in this situation so many times, although it’s never cops, it’s always just people passing by. I used to stay awake for days on end and then just fall asleep in random places

ProphetOfNixon 128

Idk if this is impressive or disturbing. You OK fam???

poodles_and_oodles 114

I used to be a college student with a bad procrastination problem.

xAdzyy 83

I am a college student with bad procrastination problems.

Mindraker 61

Reddit doesn't help.

xAdzyy 25

Reddit and Livestreams are what gets me, thank god I am out of school for the summer.

That's ok, there's a 4 hour gap between the morning and afternoon classes. If we sleep at 4:30am, we can wake up at 7am with 3 hours (rounded up) sleep but in the afternoon, we can catch up with the 4 hours and then we'll hit the bed about 30 mins early and round it off to 8 hours of sleep. We'll be OK.

ethium0x 2

Yeah but I have to study. Oh well, guess I'll just read the lessons or however they're called in English before the exam and hope I don't fail miserably.

Allorrarbor 5

Are you me?

approachcautiously 10

Did you ever end up learning that you can get so much more work done if you get some sleep and work while you're well rested?

I'm mostly asking in case other people do what you did. Seriously, you get work done so much faster when you aren't tired and want to sleep instead of do work

mafulazula 10

So did I but I still can't fall asleep like that, even if I stayed up 2 days straight writing over 100 pages (don't do that).

zugzwang_03 5

I've done that... By day two, I always lost the ability to regulate my body temperature. I shook continually after 40 hours awake. I think the worst I did was 56 hours awake and I felt horrible. Law school was brutal.

mafulazula 1

I stayed awake for a week once in the summer as a kid. That wasn't nearly as bad since I didn't have anything I had to do. Did pretty much start hallucinating tho..

Bananatwatmuffin 71

Lucky you had nice officers. My friend John fell asleep in passenger seat of the car while his boyfriend was in Shoprite in upstate NY. Apparently someone that pulled up next to him parked and thought he was dead inside the car. I guess she knocked on the window and he Didn't wake up. Next thing you know police and ambulance pulled up and began knocking harder. He woke and was reprimanded and is being billed for ambulance for $250. I dont understand why he is responsible to pay it, and why they were so mad. However, I am aware that with this heroin epidemic and the amount of deaths in this area lately had made people think and fear the worse. Its sad.

fugazzzzi 44

If i were him, i would just not pay it. F that.

Bananatwatmuffin 37

Oh man this is freaky, my friend I am talking about uses the name fugazzi for everything.

TrojanZebra 5

If i were him

Richy_T 1

Definitely. I got in a car wreck from hydroplaning. Completely unhurt but the police called an ambulance just in case. I totally didn't need it and there was no bill for me. Sounds like opportunistic billing to me. Probably a state-by-state thing though.

Beluga_Snuggles 2

Oh my goodness, this sounds like we’re extending the same ideas about leaving children and pets in the car to adults. I should warn my husband that he can’t leave me passed out in the car at gas stations on road trips anymore!

radicalelation 68

Never caused any concern doing it, but, man, falling asleep in the grass, soaking up the sun is just one of the best things in the world.

Few times I've felt so relaxed and just at peace with everything.

lukesgaming 28

I went to Glacier National Park last year. I laid down on the rocky shoreline of Lake McDonald and took an hour or two to snooze. I think that’s the fastest I’ve ever fallen asleep outside of my own bed. It was absolute and utter peace. The mountains surrounding us, the sound of water and wildlife. There was no one on that beach, besides my friend and I. The sun was beating down at 2 pm... and I didn’t even get sunburnt. Probably one of the best days of my life.

iamthepixie 2

I'm from a town just outside GNP. It's the best place in the WORLD. I miss it.

lukesgaming 2

Kalispell? Whitefish? I don’t travel that far northwest very often, but Glacier became my favorite place in Montana, hands down. I don’t know why I had never been before, it’s only a 2 hour drive at most. I know where to go if I ever need a place to chill and clear my mind, alone. I might head up there by myself this summer so I can be one with nature. That would be a dream...

iamthepixie 1

East Glacier :) not far from whitefish

lukesgaming 1

Damn, that would be amazing. Where do you live now?

CausticRemains 11

I wish I could do that. I'm always too paranoid about bugs crawling and/or falling onto me or my blanket to truly relax.

Iksperial 2

What about those insects

radicalelation 2

They chill right with you.

Zarathustra124 57

Same thing happened to me. My car broke down, the tow truck was over an hour away, and the shoulder was tilted enough to make sitting in the car uncomfortable. I spread a travel blanket on the ground, laid down with headphones on and a hat covering my eyes, and woke up to a pair of cops. I told them why I was there and went back to my nap.

sleepytimegirl 52

I have narcolepsy and often need to take a quick lie down when I feel an attack coming in. I relate.

LuminescentMoon 19

Out of curiosity, do you always notice an attack incoming or can you be distracted from the feeling?

sleepytimegirl 23

I almost always feel it coming on but I’m fortunate to not have cataplexy which is the intense muscle weakness that people often have. I just have a nearly irrisistable urge to go sleep and the more u fight it the worse I feel.

Johnny_Poppyseed 6

How long of a nap do you need to feel rested/functional again?

sleepytimegirl 15

If I feel it coming on and get ahead of it 15-20 min is ideal. If I try to push it (which I avoid) then I might need a 1-3 hour rest and even then may still feel really out of it and nauseous. Thank god for provigil. Life changing.

Zamaza 46

I did this in a park once myself, though I wasn't face down, just leaning against a tree. In the defense of whoever called 911 in my case it was like 40F out, but I'd just been taking a walk and wanted to listen to my audio book for a bit, and fell asleep.

EnkoNeko 25

4°c for anyone else wondering

captainrawpost 4

My hero.

nieuwenuadh 44

Fell asleep drunk on the no 7 bus in Vancouver once. 25 would have got me home sooner but the 7 was right there and I would save myself a couple of blocks walk, so I went the long way home, passed out, stretched out, right across the back seat and right through the downtown eastside. Bus driver woke me up at my stop, guess I was smrt enough to tell him where I needed to go before I went nigh-nighs.

Also, one time fell asleep in a park after an all night bus ride (on purpose this time), waiting for a friend to get off work so I could go crash at his place. Got a wicked sunburn and this nun woke me up, said "I'm the bus driver!"

Cop 1: Oh man... I've been on the force for 3 years and I still haven't seen a dead body yet.

Cop 2: (loads gun) well, we didn't come out here for nothing.

HungNavySEAL300Kills 1

Cop 1: But she’s just a girl!

Cop 2: You’re right.. go grab one of those kids too.

sudo999 36

this is why the first step in CPR is to shake the person's shoulder and ask them if they're okay, then call the ambulance.

Waynersnitzel 17

Working as a ranger years ago we saw someone sleeping (like OP) and decided to check to make sure they were ok. Honked the horn: nothing. Shout from the truck: nothing. Walked toward the person asking if they were ok: nothing Give them a shake on the shoulder: nothing.

Then... I did what is called a sternal rub. The old man woke up cussing and swinging. Turned out he was just sleeping REALLY hard.

davesterist 6

For real. Why is nobody else mentioning that? Somebody saw someone that could be dying and they didn’t bother checking on them? Just called the cops and left?

chirgalfrog 14

The lady could have suspected drug related causes, and I think it's fair if she did not want to go near enough where she could be in danger if the person gets violent.

At least she did something

angrymamapaws 35

It's so important to call for help if you think someone looks wrong. In Australia we're so used to the idea that someone might just be drunk that there have been high profile cases in the news of professors or professionals sitting in their suits for hours covered with vomit after a stroke or seizure because people just assume it's another drunk person passing out on the way to work.

We also have people die of alcohol poisoning because their friends thoughtfully just let them sleep it off.

Ambulances and police know how to tell the difference, let them take a look.

Beast_In_The_East 17

I fell asleep on some playground equipment in Adelaide after an all-night bus ride a few years back (being a broke backpacker can be so glamorous at times). No cops came, but I heard some woman tell her kids to "stay away from that homeless guy sleeping over there because he looks dangerous".

D3vilUkn0w 9

Lol not sure if I feel bad for you or the woman and her kids. Both I guess.

Beast_In_The_East 7

I don't feel bad about it, as it kept her kids away from me. I was tired and cranky and didn't want to deal with people.

lifeofmic 1

Radelaide

tacosrpeopletoo 23

It is kind of funny reading this. I respond to a lot of similar calls as a county paramedic. Someone thinks another person is dead in a car at a gas station or in a parking lot, when in fact they are just asleep in their car. Usually people are too afraid to check on a person or to be exposed to a dead body. I would say 99 percent of the time the person is sleeping.

Ishana92 23

you slept, face first on the grass in a public park?

Sounds...gross and uncomfortable. I mean, on the back, I could understand, but putting face on that grass...

SilverRock75 11

Could have her head up on her arms or similar.

_Porygon_Z 18

I dunno about where you live, but where I live the grass is writhing with a thousand crickets, spiders, and ants per square foot.

SilverRock75 12

Ah, that makes sense. I remember that sort of grass from when I lived back down in the southern US. Now I'm in the Midwest with more arid climate far far fewer critters.

Seiyorah 9

That's not much of a problem where I live. Not to say we don't have bugs, but in parks and fields that are commonly trafficked, we don't really have that problem unless they don't mow their property...

etilauqa 18

I went on a road trip with friends and we had a blowout. With some help from locals we got to the next town but had to wait until morning to get the car fixed. 4 guys in a car is impossible to sleep in(for me). I laid out my pad and slept in the parking lot on the ground. I got woken up 3 times by strangers to see if I was okay and once by a Police officer where I was in a similar situation. I was so dazed having just woken up and trying to explain why I'm sleeping on the ground.

Truly_Unknown 16

I was expecting some weirdos having ripped OPs clothes or tried to rape her or something. Pleasantly surprised.

Plot twist: OP is dead. We're all reading this post and will relate it to a nearby innkeeper who will tell us that she died back in the winter of nineteen-dickity-six.

pantysmasher 9

You didn't F up, the 911 caller did. People call 911 all the time without checking to see if the person is okay/alive; we call them "cell phone heroes." The issue is that they think that they are helping, but their unwillingness to actually do something more than dial three numbers causes us to waste emergency resources. Most of the time it's a sleepy homeless person. Source: I am a paramedic, and I often wake up the homeless.

I once woke up at the last stop on the train to two police officers poking me. Actually prodding me awake! "Are you okay? Have you taken anything? Do you need an ambulance?" I told them that no, I was fine, I'd had ONE BEER before hitting the train, but I'd been up for about 23 hours at that point (yay fashion week) so all I was was exhausted. They kept asking if I needed an ambulance until I stood up and threw my pack over my shoulder without stumbling. I had to reassure them again that I was fine, and apologized profusely for holding up the train. They let me go on my merry way (though they still waited on the platform until I caught the train back to my place). I was mortified.

Vindubs 7

Probably relieved they didn’t have to narcan someone for once

digitalray34 7

I once posted something like this and it was deleted bc nothing really bad happened....

XNonameX 1

This one probably had too many updoots to delete. Happens sometimes.

tacosrpeopletoo 6

It is kind of funny reading this. I respond to a lot of similar calls as a county paramedic. Someone thinks another person is dead in a car at a gas station or in a parking lot, when in fact they are just asleep in their car. Usually people are too afraid to check on a person or to be exposed to a dead body. I would say 99 percent of the time the person is sleeping.

InstallGentoo27 3

I can't believe people see someone that they believe to be in a life threatening situation, and don't even bother with the bare minimum effort required to potentially figure it out themselves. Wasting taxpayer dollars just because they're too fucking lazy or afraid to commit to 30 seconds of effort in a situation that could be life or death. Fucking mind blowing.

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pbmedic925 5

Do you know how often people call because they think someone asleep is a dead body.

Several times a day.

Do you know how many times I’ve said “m46 AOR, person was just sleeping”

Several times a day.

Don’t sweat it. It’s not your Fuck up. It’s the callers fuck up :)

LiaCross 6

Am cop. Can verify.
It bugs me that people can’t be bothered to just walk over to someone and check on them. I mean seriously. Just get a bit closer and see if they’re breathing. PROBLEM SOLVED.

D3vilUkn0w 7

I mean, to leave the house they'd have to put shoes on, and like, walk and stuff. Nah just make it someone else's problem.

WobinWobin 5

You were an F18!??

dexsadie 1

Ah, this is an amazing comment.

BestFriendVenom 5

This is what happens when we put military grade equipment in parks

sinicuichi 4

This is adorable. I can relate too, because I am very sleepy and sometimes I like to take a nap when I find a nappable area.

Shibowen 4

If you were more of a deep sleeper, you could have gotten a free adrenaline shot to the heart. Bummer.

Rogue_Glory 3

this is a cute TIFU where no one got hurt but OP was still scarred for life. 10/10 have a nice day

TheWoodenSquid 3

But if you were asleep, and not dead...then who was phone??

FroschGames 3

I always nap in the tram while commuting. I sometimes get woken up by people who worry that I might miss my stop. Just let me sleep god damn it.

PepeLePierre 3

Last time I fell asleep in a park, I woke up and panicked because I was supposed to care for my little sister and my dog (which were in the park in front of the hill where I slept). I spent an hour looking for them, and after coming home without any finds, I see she came back home by herself.

Exasperated, I go to bed, and next thing I know, I'm having a panic attack in the kitchen. Apparently, my mother called me up for dinner and I sort of sleepwalked upstairs. She asked me if everything was alright (she must've noticed I looked weird) and that's when I just had some sort of panic attack/seizure/whatever you call it.

I was tested for drugs three times because the doctors had trouble putting their hands on what happened. Their best guess was I was extremely tired and overworked myself that day.

FlashDaDog 3

How funny. I sleep in the park all the time on my lunch break. TIL people may be suspecting i am a dead junkie. Did it pregnant a lot, too :/ so, dead PREGNANT junkie?

Ranawayfuckthefeds 3

Imagine if you were black, would have been shot

Socialjuicetus 0

This

Cat-Imapittypat 2

I opened this thread expecting you to have been arrested.

Had you been black, that's exactly what would have happened

KarbonKevin 2

First responder here- we get these calls all the time and they are trivial, no worries.

Congrats OP, you have been a “Slumper”

Jonatc87 2

Could've gone waaay worse. Thankful it was a more innocent fuck up.

foxfai 2

I actually thought this story will lead to a very bad sunburn and leave a mark .

tacosrpeopletoo 2

Yes I agree. I’ve come to except this and stopped trying to understand. Similarly people will call in reporting a traffic accident and when asked if everyone is ok the response is idk I did not stop.

thebanjerplayer919 2

Knew a guy who decided to run coast to coast (USA). 2,000 miles in, he curled up and slept on the side of the highway, and was mistaken for a corpse

yeahthelads 2

If you were a black male they would have put a bullet in you to make sure.

"Stop resisting!"

Socialjuicetus 1

Exactly.

NotACerealStalker 1

Why do you bring up race? What did this story have to do with race at all? Did she say she was caucasian?

Xystem4 2

Hey, at least you got a nice nap in!

Grolschisgood 2

I saw the titled and the 18f and my heart leapt. Thank fuck it was this benign

Hello_I_Am_Lit 2

You can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed

Dejected-Angel 2

How did you manage to breath lying face down?

GriffonMT 2

Are there no fleas, no ticks in your country? I stood 5 minutes on a blanket and when I went to get a soda I saw 2 ticks making their way towards where I was staying. Noped the F out and burned the blanket.

scribble23 2

My friend once fell asleep in the park just like this. He absolutely terrified a poor lady out walking her dog - she thought she'd found a corpse (he was a bit of a dishevelled hippy looking guy tbf). She rang the police then started to approach him, at which point he sat bolt upright and groaned loudly. He ended up having to by her a cup of tea at the cafe to help calm her down.

Rip Neil, you were truly one of a kind (don't do heroin, kids, though this wasn't responsible for the park incident. Not even if you're very clever, doing a PhD and think you know exactly what you're doing).

sexylassy 2

When I was a teenager I called the cops on a man who fell asleep in his car. He seemed old, so I thought he died or had a heart attack. The cops came, turns out he was having issues at home and didn't have a goodnight sleep at home. I was worried because it was in the middle of winter in NYC and he had the car turned off, which I found odd. The guy was thankful though.

SaScrewaround 2

As someone who works in EMS that happens quiet a bit. People are concerned enough to call 911, but not concerned enough to actually check on someone.

imagine_amusing_name 2

ok madam, you're not dead. now pick up your lungs heart and viscera off the grass and get outta here!

BuriedALie2004 2

When i saw your post at frist i thought that you were mugged but im glad it wasnt. Also thanks for making me laugh been having a crappy week and your post made me chuckle a little.

elexiona 2

So many public sleepers. Do you not worry that someone is gonna steal your shit/harm/rape/kidnap you? Must be nice to live without these concerns

--Doc_Holliday 2

Funny enough, something equally serious and yet ridiculous happened to me and two of my friends.
We went to the store and bought three yard sticks, one for each of us, and we bought a thousand or so rubber bands. We made rubber band guns out of them and we're hanging out in front of my house playing around that night. Admittedly it was late but that's the only reason we could play in the street without getting struck and killed.
Well, we have an a**hat for a neighbor. He went around the neighborhood reporting people to the police for having fire works on the fourth of July. That's the type of person he is. And he apparently thought three teenagers having fun with rubber band guns was a reason to call the local Sheriff's department.
He pretty much told them we were outside with pellet guns or something shooting up the town. The department, on hearing this, took to dispatching almost every unit they had in Rancho Cucamonga to our location.
The first officer on the scene was laughing his head off at us because as soon as he saw we had yard sticks he called through the radio "No, no, go back. Yep it's fine. Just three kids with yard sticks and rubber bands playing around and having fun, everything is alright." Three sheriff vans still pulled up and they checked our IDs for a record and pretty much let us go, not even really a warning.

CozyBlueCacaoFire 2

My mom fell asleep on the beach. With no sunscreen. Just her sunglasses on.

WamsyTheOneAndOnly 2

How can anyone just fall asleep in random places like that? Are you not the least bit worried a bunch of kids will come up to you and steal your shit or just some random person being all creepy and shit taking pictures? I wish I lived in an area where I could sleep freely outside my own home.

Kasmyn 2

Gotta kinda say this not a you FU, all you did was enjoy a nice day and utilized a public place. Not your fault someone else thought the worse and called the cops without investigating. Still doesn't change the feeling of embarrassment

Haze360x 2

Not gonna lie, figured this was gonna end in sexual assault.

elchinoasdf 2

Once I fell sleep on a central park bench (it was May, so it was a really nice day after walking all morning and having lunch)... Best nap ever...

av0quez0r 2

wow what a fuck up.. seriously, I got drunk and woke up in a strangers place naked in NYE on a foreign country and my thread was deleted because there wasn't a fuck up. I'm mad

Quinnsweet 2

i just thought you were gunna get a terrible sun burn. was surprised but not disappointed

MrSlaybury 2

If this happened to a male he’d be given a field sobriety test to see if drunk in public, fail it because he just woke up, then while the breathalyzer is being fired up he’d be cuffed.

Just curious: did this have anything to with the prescriptions you said you are taking? (as said in your previous comments)

guzewsah 2

The public is always calling for people sleeping. pro tip - just go gently kick the person in the shoe and they should rouse. We have a hobo Jesus statue sleeping on a bench in our city and people are always calling for that too. Just be a decent person and check on each other

granite_grizz 2

I fell asleep on a bench waiting for my ride and they ended up being about an hour late. I woke up with a sun burn.

I'm glad people didn't think I was dead.

iYeaMikeDave 2

Damn. You didn’t get handcuffed and shoved in the dirt and punched first?

psychosocial-- 2

Wow. If that’s the worst that happens to you just falling asleep face-down in the middle of a public place, you got off scot-free. I was expecting this to turn into a horror story.

_ELAP_ 1

RIP OP

AlphabeticalKeyboard 1

Something similar happened to me once. I was doing a little work on my moms dock on a nice sunny day probably around this time of year a few years back in south Florida. After doing a bit of work, I got tired and for whatever reason decided to close my eyes and take a little snooze. I wake up very disoriented to my older sister crying up near close to the house, yelling my name, and on the phone. She thought I had died or at least hurt myself because I had a little red on my shirt and was surrounded by tools. Looking back, I completely understand her cuz who the fuck sleeps on an old ass wooden dock. I think whenever I've brought it up since, she goes through a bit of a panic attack

DrinkDice 1

Wtf is wrong with people that their first assumption is “dead body?” How about you go over and say hello and see if they move before you freak out because you watch to much Fox News and CSI.

marco_pol 1

Something similar happened to one of my friends. She saw a person lying on a sidewalk during frosh week and assumed he was dead or something. Called 911, cops and ambulance arrive and they find out the guy was just blacked out after getting super drunk.

thehumanerror 1

Not American here, who the hell calls the police if you see a person laying down you think might need help or first aid? In my country we check if we can help. Not just call the police and walk away. Is that normal?

KingKnotts 1

911 also covers ambulances. If you are not trained its often a good idea to follow their instructions while waiting for someone to get there.

Usually they don't want you doing anything if you are not trained besides keeping others away.

My friend did a similar thing once.
One of our best friends had just passed away and he was dealing and had gotten very drunk. The next day he had to work but was incredibly hungover, if not still drunk. On his break, he went over to some abandoned train tracks that are kind of in a valley underneath a bridge so he could throw up. He ended up falling asleep.

He woke up to someone running towards him - it was a fireman. He told him someone had reported an OD or dead body (we live in an area with extreme amounts of drug use and overdoses). He tried to explain that he was hungover and started telling the fireman that his friend had just died when he saw more first responders pulling up at the top of the hill.

So he panicked and ran the fuck away hahaha

AboutToCr4sh 1

How the fuck can people fall asleep in a public place? What is wrong with you

cloudyoutside 1

Inb4 this post get deleted cuz nothing bad actually happened

panquakez 1

A few months ago I had my front door open for some southern fresh air, it was amazing. I happened to be watching some anime and eating a bowl of cereal. I was also drunk as fuck. I hear a knock, which is weird because, like I said, my door was open. I rush to the door, not pausing my breathy anime but still holding my cereal and lo and behold there were two officers on my porch. I was only wearing a night gown... I had to drunkenly gesture with my bowl while girly anime sounds were coming through my speakers that I was indeed fine, no robbery going on here. I think they were sniggering at me, iduno, I can't remember because I was drunk. But the next morning I remembered and I was so ashamed.

Mikeybofficial 1

Very similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago, fell asleep in my car and woke up to two police officers tapping on my window. Someone called the cops because they thought i died in my car

backobarker 1

My brother cut his ear while shaving one day. He got the bleeding stopped but it started again at the mall. So he went into the toilets to hold a paper towel on it. The security guard comes rushing in 5 minutes later because someone had told them a man was shooting up through his ear. True story.

stromm 1

Heaven forbid that lady had first tried to talk with you.

Liquorace 1

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F_Ivanovic 1

Obligatory sleep story... im a very deep sleeper too. Frequently sleep through alarm clocks. When I was in primary school, we went on a trip somewhere. Anyway my friends couldn't wake me up in the morning so they went down to the teachers office screaming that I'm dead. Needless to say they were relieved to find out that i was just asleep still!

librarianhuddz 1

we wake the Homeless up in libraries because you know, they could be dead or in a coma. it really bums me out but having someone die would bum me out more.

Loaki9 2

Waking up bums bums you out?

jjjacer 1

Ive had something similar happen, I lived about an hour from work/school, and had just got done from class and it was a few hours before work. so i drove to work, selected a low traffic area of parking lot and drifted to sleep.

Was awoken from a cop, someone called in thinking i might be dead.

irrelevantAF 1

Falling asleep in a park - I don’t think thats a fuck-up! Not sure about the US, but I feel the person calling the police should be embarrassed rather. When I see an apparently lifeless person in the park I go there an check on them! Firstly, to see if I can still help and secondly to find out if I need to call any help at all.

Leaving somebody lying and (possibly) dying and all you do is calling the cops while watching from far away could be even seen as some kind of neglect. Unless there is an imminant danger in approaching that person, this might count as an denial of emergency assistance or so in most European countries.

Obviously that was not the case here, as you were fine, but that person could have acted more responsibly. All it needed was going there and gently poking you with her foot to clear the situation...

Edit: autocorrect, brackets

Yummmi 1

Honestly stuff like this happens all the time.

nuget102 1

I use to work over 80 hours a week. I wouldn't open, get off at 12, then go back to close at 1. Use to just sleep at the park for that your. I like the o think the locals I just relented that the rock under the tree was mine for a hour a day.

JohnnyTT314 1

I love this story. Thanks for sharing

D2ga21 1

I literally had the exact same thing happen to me except it was on my lunch break. My break is an hour long, so I decided to take. Nap and no more than 30 mins in I awoke to police officers also received calls about a possible dead body. It was awkward, especially because I still had 30 mins and wanted to keep napping.

CammKelly 1

I fell asleep in the park opposite Sydney central station one evening on a Saturday\Sunday, waiting for the bus next morning.

The missus is astounded I didn't get mugged and still have both kidneys apparently.

pieman531 1

Why the fuck would anyone just assume you were dead?

Redebo 1

They left the sirens on?

BnSMaster420 1

Honestly, you are lucky really... There are some sicko's out there that would love to happen across a unconscious female.

I am glad it turned out well for you, when I read the title, I thought the worst.

0verlimit 1

When I was a freshman in college, my younger brother ended up missing during his high school tennis tournament. I'd already graduated at this point but Coach called me and let me go what was going on and how nobody could find him and that he wasn't picking up. I am worried at this point so I start trying to call him to no avail, then calling my mom to let her know what was going on. Coach mentioned that it was getting late and that the team had spent over an hour trying to search for him. Night was falling and he needed to bring the bus and the kids back to school. Well, just in the nick of time before the team left, one of the girls found my younger brother sleeping in the back of the courts the whole time. He was all the way in the very back and no one could see him because it was dark out. I wasn't surprised but all I felt was an instance of anger followed by immediate relief that he was safe.

DahDave 1

Cant imagine its comfortable lying face down on the ground

trex005 1

I was laying in the grass by my work during lunch one day and had the same basic thing happen.

dalgeek 1

They were probably expecting you to be a drunk hobo that passed out in the field.

I was driving through Florida on vacation and saw a bunch of cars pulls over in the median, and some guy lying face down in the grass. My first thought was "shit, someone just hit that guy" so I pulled over to see if I could help. Turns out it wasn't a traffic accident; the woman who got there before me said she stopped because her kid said "Look mommy, a dead guy!". He was still breathing, the paramedics arrived a couple minutes later, and determined he was just drunk. Several people had called 911 because he had been stumbling around the road, almost walking into traffic.

ArguablyADork 1

Ouch. Yeah, I've had a lifeguard try to save me because I was practicing holding my breath.... I was a wee bit weird at floating though.

JapaneseKFC 1

Murica!

06EXTN 1

Story time!

Gf of five years and I are living together and break up. Still live together. She brings her new boyfriend over a month later, and for whatever reason her mom is staying over too. I say fuck this shit and drive straight to the bar (it was 9:30 ish). Get piss drunk and walk to the park 3/4 of a mile down the road. Sit in a swing and fall asleep. I'm awakened 3 hours later(sometime around 2am) by a police officer doing patrol and i immediately fall out of the swing backwards, onto grass fortunately. Thankfully small town, cop doesn't "know" me but recognizes me as a local. Sits down and talks to me for a little bit about what is going on and then drives me the mile and a half home.

He could have easily given me a ticket or taken me to the state barracks to sober up. Thanks Jobe - i appreciate ya dude.

Tenri_Ayukawa 1

I would be surprised too if i saw a fighter jet on a field

Marcoarego 1

This is really cute tho. Glad you are okay

Raevix 1

Don't the rules say that that the fuck up has to result in something worse than embarrassment?

speedx10 1

ayy u were dead asleep.

jkouba 1

Blame my practice wife for that assumption.

pawataka 1

Man, in my neighborhood I dont even have green grass to sleep on.

GingerScourge 1

As a 911 dispastcher, these calls are pretty common. But usually it’s someone passed out drunk.

Bumblefoot51690 1

In my drinking days I've actually been awoken by the cops several times for passing out in a park next to an empty whiskey bottle.

Same goes for my homeless days...

So uh...welcome to the club?

Jeanne23x 1

Something similar happened to me and my sister at a giant festival. But the cops were already there. We were up since 4, we just wanted a nap!

zackalak 1

What really gets me is the person who called the cops didn't even bother to check that you were actually dead first.

unknownpoltroon 1

You didnt fuck up, the woman who couldnt bother to check on you fucked up.

Dirkinator 1

Dead tired

vwally 1

That's what you get for enjoying yourself in the park.

What a weird world we live in. Lay down outside, cops show up lol

dogGirl666 1

She could have just look to see if he was breathing, right? I guess people are so fearful of death that they can't get near anyone that they have already decided is dead.

vamosenchinga 1

That'll be a great story in the future. Kinda sad that people would automatically assume drugs are involved, but I guess that's the world we live in!

DoG_B1aze 1

Yep been there except I was at work and I do landscaping so if I'm particularly exhausted I'm an extremely deep sleeper they couldn't wake me up said i stopped breathing at one point(I have sleep apnea I think it's called) and called an ambulance I also dont deal with ppl messing with me in my sleep I punched on of the EMTs when they turned me over boss was pissed

derekpole 1

If only said caller came to see if you were alright first, what's wrong with people these days.

Alabursy 0

In this story: 22 I's

501down 0

Ayaifu

Blaznboy 0

LOL they didn't shoot you on sight or IV narcan you? fuck your story this is a fantasy for anyone living in a city. Glad you didn't get the shit beat out of you though...

skeddles 0

Don't get embarrassed, laugh at them for wasting their time and the lady for being an idiot. Then go back to sleep.

fuckitx 0

I can feel the embarrassment

Thenameuwanted -1

Lucky they didn’t shoot you.

floodlitworld -1

Phew! You’re lucky they didn’t shoot you, just to make sure.

OmerY0304 -1

Quite surprising that these are cops in the US, normally they act like pieces of crap.

CrixMC 2

They only act like asses when you’re being a dick.

Socialjuicetus -1

She was a pretty white girl that's why. If she was black it would have been another unjustified shooting that the media would ignore and #bluelivesmatter activists would justify

ieathairpussy -2

How is grabbing a nap in the park your fuck up?

Socialjuicetus -3

If yuu were African American they would have called to you from a distance with guns out and charged you with obstruction of justice for wasting their time. But because you're a pretty white girl it's 'funny'. Fuck pigs.

20rBubbael -4

If that lady was so concerned about u being in danger or even dead and would go as far as calling the cops.... why would that bitch not just check on u by herself, just to find out whats going on and potentially safe ur life?!

GoodGuyAgain -6

even better is every person got pics of your ass and mooseknockle showing in your shorts

slayman2001 -12

Hey maybe instead of seeing it for what it is, like you did, you should sue the cops like Bob Marley's granddaughter is threatening against the Rialto police that investigated a neighbor complaint about a robbery where the granddaughter was staying at an airbnb and the neighbor did not know.